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Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. Topics; Part I. Patterns ofConcordance: 2. Qualitative and quantitative approaches; 3. Methodologyof quantitative biogeographical classification; 4. Criticism ofbiogeographical classification; 5. Summary of Part I; Part II.Geographical Trends in Species Richness and Biological Traits: 6.Geographical trends in species richness; 7. Geographical trends inbiological traits; 8. Intraspecific trends; Summary of Part II; PartIII. Areography: The Analysis of Species Ranges: 9. The anatomy ofspecies ranges; 10. The dynamic structure of species ranges; 11.Population dynamic theories; Summary of Part III; Part IV. SpeciesRanges and Patterns of Concordance: 12. Discontinuous variation inspace and time; 13. The future; References; Author index; Speciesindex; Subject index.